tick
IPA: tˈɪk
noun
- A tiny woodland arachnid of the suborder Ixodida.
- A relatively quiet but sharp sound generally made repeatedly by moving machinery.
- A mark on any scale of measurement; a unit of measurement.
- (computing) A jiffy (unit of time defined by basic timer frequency).
- (colloquial) A short period of time, particularly a second.
- (video games) A periodic increment of damage or healing caused by an ongoing status effect.
- (gaming) Each of the fixed time periods, in a tick-based game, in which players or characters may perform a set number of actions.
- (Australia, New Zealand, Britain, Ireland) A mark (✓) made to indicate agreement, correctness or acknowledgement.
- (birdwatching) A bird seen (or heard) by a birdwatcher, for the first time that day, year, trip, etc., and thus added to a list of observed birds.
- (ornithology) A whinchat (Saxicola rubetra).
- A tap or light touch.
- A slight speck.
- (uncountable) Ticking.
- A sheet that wraps around a mattress; the cover of a mattress, containing the filling.
- (UK, colloquial) Credit, trust.
- (obsolete, place names) A goat.
verb
- To make a clicking noise similar to the movement of the hands in an analog clock.
- To make a tick or checkmark.
- (informal, intransitive) To work or operate, especially mechanically.
- To strike gently; to pat.
- (birdwatching, transitive) To add (a bird) to a list of birds that have been seen (or heard).
- (intransitive) To go on trust, or credit.
- (transitive) To give tick; to trust.
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